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HOA SEN UNIVERSITY          FINAL REPORT  VINAL VIN MIL M K IL WITH  H CRM     CRM S  Y S S Y TEM  INTRODUCTION TO MANAGEMENT                    TUTOR’S NAME  GROUP 2 
MS. NGUYỄN TRẦN BẢO PHƯƠNG 
HO CHI MINH CITY, DECEMBER IN 2021      Name  Đỗ Hoàng  Trần Ngọc  Trần Tuấn  Nguyễn  Võ Thị Thúy  Mai Trân  Phương  Khôi  Hùng Mạnh  Vy  22000395  Trinh  22004245  Linh  22010787  22014443  22000048  Managing  Major  Some  Some  Some  Some  the project  responsibility  contribution  contribution  contribution  contribution  Conducting Major  Some  Some  Major  Some  literature  responsibility  contribution  contribution  responsibility contribution  review  Analyzing  Major  Major  Major  Major  Major  data  responsibility  responsibility 
responsibility responsibility responsibility  Writing  Major        Major  report  responsibility  responsibility  Creating  Some  Major  Some  Some  Some  presentation contribution  responsibility  contribution  contribution  contribution  slides  Presenting  Some  Major        the  slides contribution  responsibility  and  preparing  for it  Total  Above  Above  Above  Above  Above  average  average  average  average  average        1        PREFA P CE C  E  
This Project Report was created in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the academic year 
2021-2022: Introduction to Management. This Project Report presents the result of our learning 
and information gained during our studies. The purpose of the Report is to learn the fundamentals 
of management, develop a strategy, and handle challenges in customer interaction. 
We would want to express our heartfelt gratitude to Ms. Nguyen Tran Bao Phuong, Lecturer of 
Introduction To Management, for energetically advising, making ideas, and accompanying us  throughout the course. 
Despite the fact that we continue to face many challenges during online learning and group work 
owing to the tough pandemic condition, you have helped us obtain more information via your 
lectures and diversity in the practical knowledge that you teach. 
Thank you to everyone in the Introduction to Management class for connecting with us and 
working with us to create entertaining and valuable sessions. From there, each individual will have 
a multidimensional understanding of the current economy, and the role of manager, from which 
will serve as a foundation for future courses.      2        ABSTRA ABST C RA T C   
Our team learned about and surveyed Vinamilk firm and its CRM system in the food sector from 
2013 to the present with the project report on Introduction to Management. We sought to assemble 
facts and sources from Vinamilk's CRM system. We believe that just doing this project together 
will provide us with a better understanding the role of manager as well as how they applying CRM 
system to customer contact management. We shall complete this report to the best of our ability 
because of the member's excitement and hard work. Our team, on the other hand, detects significant 
flaws in the study as a result due to limitation in our knowledge. We need your input and feedback 
in order for this report to be useful to all students, particularly Hoa Sen pupils.    3        IN I D N E D X  X PR P E R F E A F C A E
C .......................................................................................................................................... 2  AB A S B T S R T A R C A T
C ....................................................................................................................................... 3  Pa P r a t  r 1 t : 1  : I  n I tr n o tr d o u d c u ti c o ti n
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Vinamilk’s background & Vinamilk's CRM ............................................................................. 5 
1.1 Vinamilk’s background ......................................................................................................... 5 
1.2 Vinamilk’s CRM ..................................................................................................................... 5 
2. Which knowledge will be applied to analysis? ......................................................................... 6  PA P R A T R  T 2  : 2  : M  a M n a a n g a e g m e e m n e t  n a t c a ti c v ti i v ti i e ti s e  s i  n i  n o  r o g r a g n a i n z i a z ti a o ti n o s
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1. How were 4 management functions applied? ..................................................................... 6 
1.1 Planning ................................................................................................................................ 6 
1.2 Organizing ............................................................................................................................ 9 
1.3 Leading ............................................................................................................................... 10 
1.4 Controlling ......................................................................................................................... 11 
2. Is it success or failure? ......................................................................................................... 11  Pa P r a t  r 3 t : 3  : C  o C n o c n l c u l s u i s o i n
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1. The value of Vinamilk’s CRM system ............................................................................... 12 
2. Lesson learned ..................................................................................................................... 12  RE R F E E F R E E R N E C N E C S
E ............................................................................................................................... 14                4    Pa P r a t  r 1 t : 1  : I  ntr n o tr d o u d c u ti c o ti n  n  
1. Vinamilk’s background & Vinamilk's CRM  1.1 Vinamilk’s background 
Vinamilk is always a pioneer with international quality dairy products, meeting the daily 
nutritional needs of a high and diverse Vietnamese people. Most of Vinamilk's farms are large-
scale with all breeding cows imported from Australia, the US, and New Zealand. Therefore, 
Vinamilk's premium natural product lines such as Vinamilk 100% fresh milk have quickly taken 
the No.1. Vinamilk is the leading dairy company in Vietnam in almost all categories such as liquid 
milk, powdered milk, yogurt, condensed milk, ... Recently, Vinamilk pioneered 100% Organic 
fresh milk, the first European standard organic product in Vietnam. 1 position in the fresh milk 
segment nationwide. The company has moved up to the 36th position in the top 50 dairy companies 
with the highest revenue in the world (Plimsoll Statistics, UK). 
Vinamilk is known for its focus on developing human resources, to master the company's modern 
technology and equipment. Every year, about 10 students with excellent university entrance exam 
results are selected and sent by the company to train in the Russian Federation. The company 
currently has a team of professionals and the technical staff is quite good, only 26% are unskilled 
workers, 29% have intermediate degrees, the rest all have college, university, and post-graduate  degrees.    1.2 Vinamilk’s CRM  1.2.1 What is CRM? 
 CRM is a collection of many activities in all stages of Marketing, Sales, and Customer Care. 
CRM is also a tool to help businesses store, analyze and report all customer information. It can 
help businesses fully connect with customers, streamline the entire process, increase work 
efficiency and increase revenue.   
1.2.2 How does Vinamilk's CRM system work? 
Through Vinamilk's CRM system, all facilities and branches across the country can connect data 
synchronously. With the diversification of business products, Vinamilk's customer base is also very 
diverse, so Vinamilk's customer management activities will be much more complicated than other 
businesses.Customers Customers are always the focus of efforts of sales, marketing, product 
development, future development orientation of Vinamilk. The CRM system with a scale of up to 
nearly 200 distributors has minimized incorrect deals in the perpetration process, reduced 
numerous costs incurred, and increased work productivity.Realizing that value, Vinamilk always 
puts client relations, customer retention strategies, and customer interests first.With the scale of 
being a leading large enterprise in Vietnam, the operation of CRM software is an inevitable trend. 
Record and snappily handle arising problems to bring maximum satisfaction to customers. 
Functions of Vinamilk's CRM system:   
Transaction: This allows the company to record interactive transactions on the software.   
Storage and update: Record documents in any format, can share documents for all 
employees in the company to refer to, especially when employees go on a business trip, 
they still can access the document store easily.   
Planning: Help managers set up and arrange working schedules for individuals and groups 
on a weekly, monthly, or yearly basis.   
Declaration and management: Declaring and managing information of each customer to 
determine the relationship, habits, and behavior of that customer, helping to determine 
which customers regularly have relations with the company.  5       
Analytics: This allows the company to review and analyze all data information to manage 
and track what needs to be done.   
Interaction and exchange: The system creates an open environment so that users can 
completely interact directly with each other such as writing news, replying to news, and 
expressing their personal views and opinions.   
2. Which knowledge will be applied to analysis? 
In this essay, we will focus on applying our knowledge of 4 functions in management to better 
clarify the operation and work of managers as well as the CRM system of Vinamilk. Those 4  functions include:   
Planning: This is the process by which a manager establishes organizational goals and 
creates a course of action to achieve them.   
Organizing: The process by which managers allocate resources and assign tasks to 
employees to achieve the goals established in the planning phase.   
Leading: The way in which managers motivate individual employees, teams, and groups 
to act toward organizational goals.   
Controlling: The process of evaluating the implementation of the plan and making 
adjustment to ensure the achievement of the business goals.      Pa P r a t  r 2 t : 2  : M  an a a n g a e g m e e m n e t  n ac a ti c v ti i v ti i e ti s  s i  n i  n organization   
1. How were 4 management functions applied?  1.1 Planning 
Vinamilk considers the current information technology (IT) system to be an indispensable part of 
the company's long-term business strategy. Thanks to its IT application, Vinamilk has managed 
more effectively distribution channels. CRM is going to be Vinamillk's choice to solve this 
problem. We officially describe the plans and the economic potential that this system can bring to 
Vinamilk applying 6 steps in the strategic management process. 
Step 1: Identification the organization’s current mission, goals and strategies 
Vinamilk's new production and distribution management system is designed to provide accurate 
information in a timely manner to serve the production process, inventory management and 
Marketing. Vinamilk considers the current information technology (IT) system to be an 
indispensable part of the company's long-term business strategy. 
 CRM is Vinamilk's choice to solve this problem. Vinamilk's CRM system is a software for 
collecting customer data. It helps process customer information, continuously updates the latest 
information on prices, discounts, and products to meet Vinamilk’s strategy and customer needs.            6      SWOT    STRENGTHS  WEAKNESS  OPPORTUNITIES  THREATS  -Single View of Customer  -Cannot succeed with  -Acquiring an ever- - Difficult - Data  new data entered  expanding customer  Implementation  network    -Better Knowledge and  -Insufficiently defined  -Web Dependency  Understanding of  activities  O ai ve d of ry  nf or on  O d of or r  unne or on f ga unne on f lnoa ce m ori m or sa  zast a
oas tt -Easily build strategies    Customers  with reliable data      -Product and  O ai ve d of ry  nf or on  O d of or r  unne or on f ga unne on f lnoa ce m ori m or sa  zast a oas tt   -Enhancing the  Competitive Information      development of  at Fingertips      Vinamilk    Step 2: External Analysis  Opportunities: 
Acquiring an ever-expanding customer network: With huge data about corporate customers, 
Vinamilk has implemented classification of individual potential customers as well as corporate  customers. 
Easily build strategies with reliable data: Once a close customer relationship is captured, Vinamilk 
will have an effective method to expand its loyal customer network and find potential partners. 
Enhancing the development of Vinamilk: By applying CMR to customer management activities, 
Vinamilk can have many opportunities to attract large investors and can gain the trust of domestic 
and foreign partners in its operations. From there, Vinamilk can easily analyze and synthesize the 
necessary data to offer products suitable for each customer segment.  Threats: 
Difficult implementation: CRM solutions for businesses have a reputation for being tough to 
implement. CRM and other enterprise initiatives necessitate collaboration and participation from 
corporate groups that have traditionally not collaborated and may have battled for resources and 
recognition. The following elements impact the level of difficulty:   
Implementation can be challenging due to internal politics and the existing organizational  structure.   
Data is erroneous, unavailable, or inaccessible in a variety of formats.   
Efforts become stymied as required systems are integrated. 
Web dependency: A business should ensure that it has the necessary technology infrastructure in 
place to support the website. Hundreds of thousands of transactions per day may be required by 
commercial Web applications. Significant revenue may be lost if a company becomes overly reliant 
on the Internet. Companies should find the right balance when using Web technologies in CRM  initiatives.  Step 3: Internal Analysis  Strengths: 
Single view of customer data: CRM solutions consolidate client data into a single database (rather 
than multiple systems), decreasing the risk of inconsistencies and errors. Customers receive 
consistent, predictable information regardless of the channel via which they interact. Companies 
can improve their service by sharing information.  7     
Better knowledge and understanding of customers: Because the organization has a more detailed 
understanding of who its clients are, it can better adapt services to their demands and spending 
levels. Priority accounts can also be targeted by the company. 
Product and competitive information at fingertips: At the point of sale, they ensure that customers 
have access to the most up-to-date product and competition information. Sales configuration 
engines ensure that reps configure products correctly and provide accurate quotes.  Weakness: 
Cannot succeed with new data entered: CRM will fail if there is insufficient and new customer 
data. To be successful, it is necessary to be patient in acquiring additional and historical data; 
otherwise, the project may fail, resulting in the business losing significant time and money. 
Insufficiently defined activities: It relates to internal organizational operations such as process 
time and costs, employee productivity, data quality, and task coordination.  Step 4: Formulate Strategies 
As we know before using CRM systems in enterprises, Vinamilk has the weakness of difficulty 
managing customer information. Since up to 200 distributors are customers of Vinamilk not to 
mention consumers and the source of information is only recorded manually between the two 
parties, when aggregating information, it takes a lot of time and accuracy is not guaranteed. And 
the CRM system is an alternative to this traditional recording tool to solve the problem of customer 
information for Vinamilk including place, price, discount, product. This makes Vinamilk easy and 
quick to come up with a strategy to meet customer needs. In addition, Vinamilk sees CRM systems 
as a long-term alternative to shaping its strategy.  Step 5: Implement Strategies 
The system is used to reframe the distribution process across the country so that distributors can 
access the system to understand the price and products the company is currently producing. 
Moreover, CRM also helps Vinamilk collect full information about customer orders to have a 
timely production plan. In addition, it also helps Vinamilk control the inventory source so that it 
can plan a marketing strategy to optimize this volume.  Step 6: Evaluate Results 
Vinamilk is also one of the three "most potential brands of the dairy industry in the world" with 
2nd place. This is the first time Vinamilk's outstanding revenue exceeded VND 16 billion in a 
quarter. Vinamilk announced the financial information of the third quarter of 2021 with total 
revenue of VND 16,208 billion and maximum profit after tax of VND 2,961 billion. Accumulated 
in the first 9 months of the year, total revenue and combined profit after tax have completed 73% 
and 75% of the year plan, respectively. According to Brand Finance, Vinamilk is the only Southeast 
Asian representative in the "Top 10 most valuable dairy brands in the world" in 2021 with a brand 
value of nearly 2.4 billion USD, up 12% compared to 2020.    8      1.2 Organizing 
Picture: Vinamilk’s organizational structure   
The organizational structure of Vinamlik is usually a popular topic for university students to 
discuss about that in college essays. By depending on its one-of-a-kindness, attention to detail, and 
professionalism. Our team will analyze Vinamlik's organizational structure based on 6 elements at 
the time they apply CRM in their organization, so as not to miss out on the interesting knowledge 
on this topic. However, we would like to analyze some elements which are used by the managers 
and affected by the CRM system for the report's goals.    1.  Work Specialization 
There are several specialist occupations at Vinamilk's organization that assist its personnel in 
doing successfully the tasks for which they have been trained. The Board of Directors, which is 
responsible for the company's top performance and management, oversees the company's  9     
organizational and management apparatus. The functional departments of the functional and task 
departments pair up with the different responsibilities.  2.  Departmentalization 
Organized into groups of workers to take on different jobs to take on diverse responsibilities, in 
order to maintain effective coordination and control, some of Vinamilk's departments: Production, 
Marketing, HR, Sales, Finance, and Accounting.  3.  Authority and responsibility 
The CRM system is used by the department's top managers to assist them organize individual and 
group work schedules, such as daily, weekly, and monthly calendars. CRM, in particular, may 
assist departments that contact directly with customers in managing, organizing, and securing their 
information in the most effective way.  4.  Span of control 
Vinamilk's use of CRM in employee management has greatly helped in the control of managerial 
authority. There are two main functions that can be mentioned:   
Record documents in any format with the archiving and updating capability. As a result, 
users can exchange documents with one another, documents that can be used by anybody. 
Employees may quickly use and access the document repository, even if they are on a  business trip.   
Create a public information exchange environment throughout the system by writing news, 
responding to communications, and so on. CRM can assist each group in exchanging online 
views and opinions on a specific topic. 
Managers will benefit greatly from the two functions indicated above if they are used well, 
regardless of how wide their span of control is.      1.3 Leading 
In order to be able to manage its employees well when applying CRM systems to businesses, each 
small team in each department has a team leader to collect the team's information and send it to the 
head of the department, who will transmit information back and forth to maintain the CRM system 
with full information and alignment, so that the leaders can make the right decisions and paths for 
the company. Because they think that splitting into such small groups will be easier to control and 
grasp information faster than large groups, avoiding the case that too many people lead to dilution  of the source of information. 
When applying CRM systems to the company, the majority of employees work on computers and 
it is very important for managers to take measures to monitor their employees in this area to ensure 
the flow of information to other departments as well as customers quickly and accurately. However, 
Vinamilk has come up with strategies to motivate its employees so that they can be more motivated 
to do their job well, Vinamilk has applied some motivational theories for employees and the most 
notable theory is F. Herzberg's two-factor theory to solve the problem for its employees. Not only 
that, but they also have to monitor the process of employees to understand how employees work 
and what problems are having to support them in a timely manner, not slow down the progress 
affecting other departments of the company and can avoid information theft. 
When sitting on electronic devices for such a long time, it is easy for them to get bored with work 
and easily lose focus leading to mistakes that stall the company and if they do this many time they 
can be fired and employees do not like this. Managers embrace this in their employees so they 
always encourage and praise their employees and they also have many events such as sports,  10     
singing, vacation travel, birthday parties for their employees so that they have more solidarity. It is 
a lot of fun when they get back to their jobs. And these events take place regularly, weekly, monthly 
and yearly. No employee wants to be employed in such an environment. 
Moreover, managers always encourage their employees with huge bonus regimes such as 
holidays, Tet, employees not only receive bonuses but also receive gifts with different values to 
each person, and for sales employees, they also have a monthly commission based on each person's 
ability. Vinamilk's managers also challenge their employees to increase their creativity and 
adaptability, when faced with difficult situations and this makes their employees always like to 
express themselves to show their managers their abilities. Vinamilk's managers have applied 
Maslow's hierarchy of needs to their work environment to motivate their employees by meeting 
their needs to express themselves. 
For the current COVID-19 pandemic due to social distancing, employees are not allowed to come 
to the company to work and do not meet with their colleagues but must work remotely. But thanks 
to understanding that mentality of its employees, Vinamilk's managers have introduced seasonal 
policies that help motivate employees such as doing well in health protection and ensuring workers' 
rights such as declaration, guide employees to comply with and practice epidemic prevention 
regulations; build a safe working environment to fight epidemics and support the company's 
nutritional products to enhance resistance and health for employees. The company also guarantees 
income and benefits for employees, does not reduce wages, reduces working hours; facilitates and 
maintains adequate regimes even when workers work from home during periods of severing due  to the epidemic.    1.4 Controlling 
At the same time, through crm systems, managers can also manage their company's projects in 
terms of members, schedule, time and contracts to sign with partners. CRM systems allow company 
managers to establish the roles and positions of salespeople, customer relations staff, thereby 
managing and promoting their roles. Moreover, this system also helps managers control the 
information spread across the system through the discussion function. CRM systems allow 
management and tracking of phone calls within the company, helping managers plan which 
customers to call, at what time, for how long, and whether their employees have made or forgotten. 
From there, they can select and organize information in the most accurate way. So that it can be 
easily retrieved when something goes wrong. 
However, everything has certain risks, so to be able to ensure the information of customers, 
Vinamilk's managers have put in place very good privacy policies for their customers and when 
anyone does not want to save their information anymore, they can ask the company to remove, to 
control customer information will not leak out when applying CRM system because when storing 
information on a system is easy to smuggle out. Knowing there is good information security on the 
system but other privacy policies are required from humans to optimize information security.    2. Is it success or failure? 
In general, our group can determine from the analysis of four management functions that: One 
of the elements contributing to Vinamilk's success must undoubtedly be the usage of a CRM system  for customer management. 
Specifically, "CUSTOMERS" are constantly at the center of marketing, sales, product 
development, and the company's future development strategy. Vinamilk recognizes this value and 
emphasizes customer relationships, implementing a customer retention plan and measuring  11     
customer relationships. Furthermore, the prior assessment of the production, distribution, and 
human resource management systems was unable to provide the successful delivery of reliable data 
to support the production, inventory management, and marketing activities. As a result, CRM is 
Vinamilk's preferred method of resolving this issue. Vinamilk has more successfully handled 
distribution channels thanks to the IT application. 
Although there are still several restrictions that managers face when using CRM to handle 
company activities. Managers' working processes will become less proactive as a result of factors 
such as employee technological skills limitations or overuse of computer tools. However, Vinamilk 
still considers its current CRM information technology system as a critical component of its long- term business plan.      Pa P r a t  r 3 t : 3  : C  o C nc n l c u l s u i s o i n o  n    
1. The value of Vinamilk’s CRM system 
 CRM may assist businesses in completely connecting with consumers and employees, 
streamlining the entire process, increasing work productivity, and increasing income; nevertheless, 
when used in practice, businesses cannot escape both advantages and disadvantages. 
 It is undeniable that good management of the relationship between businesses and customers 
will help businesses achieve greater and greater success. Therefore, the CRM information system 
is designed specifically for customer contact. This is not just a simple software, but through which 
businesses can capture the psychology and needs of customers. 
 Enterprises need to fully equip their employees with synchronous knowledge because the notion 
of a CRM information system is still relatively new to businesses in Vietnam. In addition to 
employee training, businesses also need to have a specific strategy to be able to promote the power  of the CRM system. 
 The successful construction of a CRM system will be one of the driving forces behind the  growing business.    2. Lesson learned 
A manager's work is quite wide, encompassing various activities such as planning, organizing 
that plan, leading, and controlling. My group understands more aspects of the subject, and this will 
certainly be important knowledge to help us in future work. The important thing is not to choose 
the best employees, but to choose the people who are best suited for the job. 
 Prior to taking the course, we assumed that management was the process through which a 
manager divided and organized work for employees. Through this subject and report, we have 
filled in the missing knowledge and skills about the role of a manager. And not every plan that 
springs up will be a success. And the manager assembles a fantastic squad from these folks. 
However, after taking this course, we have a different view on managers; in addition to being 
responsible for monitoring work, they must also construct a culture in the organization, recruit and 
train personnel for skills, and assist individuals in developing. 
To be honest, our team had a bit of a hard time at the beginning. We do not know the exact 
direction, and we also have a certain distance between the members. Even we had conflicts in the 
beginning, but after learned about the stages of group development, we know that it is inevitable, 
we understand that conflicts will happen and it is also help us to improve. Our team follows the  12     
form of democracy leadership style and the stages of group development; while making choices, 
we will allow everyone to vote and select the best solution. These have contributed to effective 
teamwork. Our team would like to give a special thank to Ms. Phuong, through her interesting and 
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